[ACT-R-users] AAAI Fall Symposium "Cognitive Approaches to NLP"

[Ball, Jerry T Civ USAF AFRL/RHAT]

Dear ACT-R user,

 

The schedule for the AAAI Fall Symposium "Cognitive Approaches to NLP"
is shown below. The last day to register for the symposium is Friday, 12
October. Registration information is available at:

 

http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss07registration.pdf

 

All participants will be given an opportunity to highlight key ideas at
the beginning of the symposium in the opening session, and we have
allowed lots of time for discussion at the end of each session and at
the end of the symposium. 

 

A description of the motivation for the symposium is available at:

 

http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss07symposia.php#fs03 

 

Please consider registering for the symposium,

 

Jerry

 

Jerry T. Ball

Senior Research Psychologist

Human Effectiveness Directorate

Air Force Research Laboratory

 

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AAAI 2007 Fall Symposium Series


Cognitive Approaches to NLP


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Friday, November 9  


9:00 am - 10:30 am Opening Session 


 

9:00 am - 9:30 am: Welcome, Background and Introduction

9:30 am - 10:30 am: Presentation of Ideas and Setting of Stage for
Symposium by Participants (3 mins and 2 slides per participant)

 

10:30 am - 11:00 am    Break

 

11:00 am - 12:30 pm    Keynote Session - Computational Psycholinguistics
and NLP

 

11:00 am - 11:55 noon: Keynote Presentation: John Trueswell, University
of Pennsylvania, Topic TBD

11:55 - 12:20 pm: Jerry Ball, Air Force Research Laboratory: "Mildly
Deterministic NLP via Context Accommodation"

12:20 pm - 12:30 pm: Discussion

 

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm     Lunch

 

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm      Keynote Session - Embodied Agents and NLP

 

2:00 pm - 2:55 pm: Keynote Presentation: Alan Schultz, Naval Research
Lab, "Moving Toward Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Interaction"

2:55 pm - 3:20 pm: Matthias Scheutz, University of Indiana, "Towards an
Integrated Constrained-Based Incremental Natural Language Processing
Architecture for Situated Embodied Agents"

3:20 pm - 3:30 pm: Discussion

 

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm      Break

 

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm      Paper and Panel Session - Cognition and NLP

 

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm: Gregory Aist, Arizona State University: "Idealized
Cognition for Natural Language Processing"

4:20 pm - 5:20 pm: Panel, Topic TBD

5:20 pm - 5:30 pm: Discussion

 

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm      Reception

 

 

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Saturday, November 10


9:00 am - 10:30 am Paper Session - Cognitive Aspects of Computational
Linguistics


 

9:00 am - 9:25 am: Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania, "Complex
Lexical Packages for NLP: Cognitive and Computational Implications"

9:25 am - 9:50 am: Christopher Potts, University of Massachusetts
Amherst & Maribel Romero, University of Pennsylvania: "Questions:
Interpretation and Resolution"

9:50 am - 10:10 am: Kevin Livingston & Christopher Riesbeck,
Northwestern University: "All Knowledge All the Time: a Cognitive
Science Challenge for Machine Language Comprehension"

10:10 am - 10:30 am: Discussion


10:30 am - 11:00 am    Break


11:00 am - 12:30 pm    Paper Session - Ontologies and Agents


 

11:00 am - 11:25 am: Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane & Bruce Jarrell,
University of Maryland Baltimore County: "Building Simulated
Cognitive/Physiological Agents"

11:25 am - 11:50 am: Norm Badler, University of Pennsylvania:
"Connecting Instructions with Virtual Human Animation through
Parameterized Actions"

11:50 am - 12:15 pm: Evgenia Malaia, Purdue University: "Ontology and
cognitive representation of event structure: psych verbs"

12:15 pm - 12:30 pm: Discussion


12:30 pm - 2:00 pm     Lunch


 

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm      Paper Session - NLP in Cognitive Architectures

 

2:00 pm - 2:20 pm: Pat Langley & Wende Frost, Arizona State University:
"Modeling Language in a Cognitive Architecture"

2:20 pm - 2:40 pm: Andrea Heiberg, L3 Communication @ Air Force Research
Lab: "Optimality-Theoretic Natural Language Generation in a Cognitive
Architecture"

2:40 pm - 3:05 pm: Nicholas Cassimatis, Arthi Murugesan, Paul Bello
(Office of Naval Research) & Magdalena Bugajska, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute: "A Cognitive Substrate for Natural Language Understanding"

3:05 pm - 3:30 pm: Discussion


3:30 pm - 4:00 pm      Break


4:00 pm - 4:50 pm      Mini Paper Session: Learning and Acquisition for
NLP


 

4:00 pm - 4:20 pm: Andrew McCallum, University of Pennsylvania:
"Combining Language, Logic and Uncertainty: Efficient Inference and
Learning in Probabilistic Models of Language"

4:20 pm - 4:40 pm: Erwin Chan, University of Pennsylvania: "Cognitively
plausible computational models of morphology acquisition"

4:40 pm - 4:50 pm: Discussion


4:50 pm - 5:30 pm      Research Directions and Future Steps Session


 

4:50 pm - 5:10 pm: Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania: "A
Cognitively Plausible Framework for Natural Language Interaction between
Humans and Robots"

5:10 pm - 5:30 pm: Discussion


6:45 pm - 8:00 pm      Plenary Session


 

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